St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-30
A QUESTION OF vERACITY.
DR.. McGlynn Comes Back With a
Reply to Cardinal Gibbons.

Reply to Cardinal Gibbons.
New YORK, June 29.-Dr. McGlynn
arrived in this city to-day from Chicago.
To an Associated Press reporter he said
that he had engagements at Milwaukee
on July and 6, so, of course, he
could not go to Rome July 2.
He said that the alleged denial by Cardi-
nal Gibbons of his (McGlynn's) state
ment thatR Rome wants an ambassador at
Washington was not denial at all, but
carefully wOrded evasion and added:
! am morally certain that while making
this apparent denial Cardinal Gibbons is as
well aware as l am of the facts upon
and I further assert that these
enough to deny any intention of sending a
nuncio to this country without contrad1etlng
me; since purposely avoided the use of the
technical word (nuncio), knowing as well as
wo3Id h be the des gnpa y sdme
other name. My exact words
were. THE Roman machine is to-day
most anxious to have an ambassador of the
pope accredited to and received by the gov,
eminent at Washington 1 purposely used
the word ambassador in its general sense,
Knowing full well that that would not be his
oihciai title and that it would matter
very little what such title might be.
do is to state the facts exactly as got them
and let them speak for themselves. A bishop
who is very intimate with Cardinal Glib
bons and who must have received his facts
who could not have failed to tell
the cardinal what he told the
bishop, told me, perhaps a year ago,
that the Roman ecclesiastical authorities were
accredited to and received by the government
at Washington, and that Bishop Dwenger, of
Fort Wayne, Ind, who had but recently re-
turued from Rome, had undertaken to sound
and had sent back word to Rome that
nothing could be done with the
present cabinet. The bishop also stated to me
that Bishop Dwenger expected as reward
to 9l this diplomatic service, was the arch
bishopric, of st. Louis, when the venerable Oc-
t0genarlan incumbent Dendricks should have
shuffied off this mortal coil. Besides the
positive statement of the bishop as
to m.t, Rome,s de desire, we have have e %f
gers recent return from Rome and
his message to the authorities there of which
have just spoken, evidently implying that
they were aware of and approved his in
tended attempt at negotiation with the Wash
lngton cabinets and that he knew that the
success of his preliminary negotiation would
be most gratifying to Rome and deserving OF
the exceeding great reward, which he ex-
pected.
DR.. McGlynn also quoted the denial
of an unnamed Washington gentleman
of prominence quoted in New York
paper, and said that the terms of this
denial proved his (McGlynn's) state
ment, as that gentleman gave himself
away by saying that the American hier-
archy, including Cardinal Gibbons,
Bishop Dwinger and Archbishop Corri-
gan, are strongly opposed to the plan,
showing thereby that the matter has
been under discussion and sides taken.
DR.. McGlynn proceeded:
This is but in keeping with that desire of
the Roman machine to make places for the
Italian hangers on, of which desire an arch
bishop of one of our most important Sees
complained in u conversation with me some
three years ago. 1t was about the
time that the Roman authorities
had as good as appointed one Seppiancci
an Italian Augustinan monk and bishop, not
knowing, believe, a word of English, to
preside over the council of Baltimore. 1t
was matter of common gossip that several
Of the American archbishops and bishops
assembled in Rome had to brow-beat
the cardinal advisors of the pope
into Withdrawing their man by conjuring up
dire visions of national prejudices and sus-
capabilities to be reused and by refusing to be
responsible for the consequences. Again, it
is in keeping with what is going on to-day in
the attempt to establish papal diplomatic re-
lations with England and in the dispatch of
two Italians to investigate Catholic Ireland
andreport to their Italian MASTER